Dream Interpretation, Therapy, Transformation

Catastrophe/Apocalyptic Dreams

This post was written about 5 years ago, but it is just as applicable today. When you think of an apocalypse, make it personal rather than global because you can change your own personal apocalypse into something amazingly wonderful. You can land in paradise.

A few nights I was in Singapore doing a dream meeting with about 25 people. There were quite a few interesting dreams as there always are, but one thing that really caught a great deal of interest for me was that of dreaming about catastrophes. In the particular dream, the dreamer said that he dreamt that something extremely terrible was going to happen, that he was frozen in his response to it, and that he rarely remembered many dreams.

When you do dream work, it is always solution oriented. This is a bit different than when you go to a therapist’s office and get dream analysis based upon the the therapist’s interpretation of the symbols. The symbolic work is pretty straight forward. It just requires having a pretty lengthy knowledge of analogies. The purpose of dream work, while it includes analysis, does not stop there. The important…